35.6% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
The Gap · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in The Gap
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Well below the state and national figures, far fewer people have recently moved into The Gap. Only 35.6% of residents arrived in the last five years, reflecting a stable population that is less transient than most other Australian areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.6% of people here moved house in the last five years. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is well below the Queensland rate of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 8.2% of the population. This is around the middle for its level, though it remains well below the figures for both Queensland (13.7%) and Australia (14.5%).
8.2% ▼ -52.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in The Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32790/the-gap/topic/mobility-location